"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

Friday, July 20, 2012

That's not a good thing, kiddies.

Get ready for LeBron James and Mickey Mouse coming to a city near you. Or Jeremy Lin and the Jolly Green Giant. At a press conference
yesterday in Las Vegas, NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said that
team owners were broadly in favor of a plan to put 2.5-by-2.5-inch
sponsor patches above the heart on team uniforms. The plan still awaits
formal approval, but Silver said he expects guidelines to be in place by
the start of the coming season so that teams have a year to sell the
patches and Adidas, which makes NBA uniforms, has time to add them to
jerseys sold in stores.

In March we wrote
about the likelihood of the NBA becoming the first of the four major
U.S. sports leagues to put ads on game uniforms. (We also provided some fun scenarios
for team and sponsor matches.) Silver gave a “loose projection” that
the patches would generate $100 million per season for the league’s 30
teams.

Eric Smallwood of Front Row Marketing Services, who has studied
the television exposure of various on-jersey ads, says that number may
be closer to $125 million. Smallwood anticipates an average annual price
of between $4 million and $4.5 million for patch deals, with a range of
$1.5 million to $7.5 million depending on a team’s market and players.

“That’s
a fantastic location,” he says of the proposed patch. While smaller
than the cross-chest treatment on uniforms for soccer teams in England’s
Premier League, he says, it’s better for TV cameras, which tend to
capture the upper chest and above. Not to mention the fans who will
become walking billboards: “Where does your eye go? To the top part of a
body.”

And just in case New York Knicks fans needed more reason
to regret the team’s recent decision to let Jeremy Lin go to the Houston
Rockets, Smallwood figures the patch will be an attractive property for
a sponsor looking to piggyback on Lin’s celebrity for exposure in Asia.
“All of a sudden in Asia there’s a pop-up of Rockets jerseys
everywhere, and there’s a brand on there,” he says. Thanks to Lin, he
anticipates Houston to be in the top five for patch deals.

Regardless of
whether the president wins re-election, the Obama era will be over
before long. Democrats will have to find a new leader on whom to pin
their hopes. But who?

I'm sure antichrist is available.

I went to a conference
of liberal activists this week hoping to find out whom the party's
activist base sees as its up-and-coming stars. But the exercise turned
out to be revealing largely for how unprepared people were to answer
the question.

Nearly every answer I got began with a blank stare or
incredulous laugh, followed by some fumbling around, followed by "Elizabeth Warren."

Confirming the impression I'd gleaned from my conversations with activists and organizers, Warren ran away with the 2016 straw poll conducted at the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, winning 32 percent of the vote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's 27 percent. [Heil Schicklgruber! - F.G.] Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who spoke at the conference
and whose brand of gravelly-voiced populism is a perpetual hit with
this crowd, was third with 16 percent; the other names on the ballot,
all polling in single digits, were New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia.

It
tells you something about Warren's status as a rock star of the left
that before the Senate candidate in Massachusetts has even won her first
election she's being pumped as a future presidential candidate.
But it tells you even more about the status of the Democratic farm
team. There are precious few tabbed for political stardom in the
Democratic ranks the way Obama was starting in 2004 or the way Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is adored on the Republican right today.

"Whew,
man, that's a tough one," said Jeanette Baust, a 55-year-old educator
and activist from Denver who was attending the progressive conference
along with her partner, Evelyn Hanssen. "I guess I'd have to say Elizabeth Warren if she can get elected." What about Colorado's Democratic senators,Michael Bennet* and Mark Udall, and governor, John Hickenlooper? The women didn't think they had national potential...

Hickenlooper? What funny names these babykillers have.

Hey what's that asterisk for? Is Michael Bennet somebody we should have heard of?

* Disclosure: Michael Bennet is the brother of the editor of The Atlantic, James Bennet.

A lone gunman dressed in riot gear burst into a movie theater in Aurora,
Colo., at a midnight showing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises"
and methodically began shooting patrons, killing at least 12 people and
injuring at least 50.

The suspect, James Holmes, 24, of Aurora, was caught by police in the
parking lot of the Century 16 Movie Theaters, nine miles outside Denver, after police began receiving dozens of 911 calls at 12:39 a.m. MT. Police said the man appeared to have acted alone.

Witnesses in the movie theater said Holmes crashed into the auditorium
through an emergency exit about 30 minutes into the film, set off a
smoke bomb, and began shooting. Holmes stalked the aisles of the
theater, shooting people at random, as panicked movie-watchers in the
packed auditorium tried to escape, witnesses said.

"You just smelled smoke and you just kept hearing it, you just heard bam
bam bam, non-stop. The gunman never had to reload. Shots just kept
going, kept going, kept going," one witness told ABC News.

"I'm with coworkers and we're on the floor praying to God we don't get
shot, and the gunshots continue on and on, and when the sound finally
stopped, we started to get up and people were just bleeding," another
theatergoer said...

Police have linked three July stabbings of homeless people in the Los Angeles area to one suspect who left typewritten "death warrant" notes at each crime scene.

The
third signed letter was found at a stabbing early Thursday morning in
Hollywood and was similar to letters found at two previous stabbings in
downtown and Santa Monica, Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. Police are asking for the public's help in finding a person of interest.

All
three victims are in their 50s and were stabbed in the back in the
early morning hours as they slept, Smith said. The victims survived,
though one remains hospitalized, police said.

Police are warning homeless people to seek shelter at night and avoid sleeping alone in the streets...

Due to time constraints, we now move to further action.

The letters left with the victims were all signed "David Ben Keyes," who police have named as a person of interest in their investigation, Smith said.

Smith
emphasized that police are still unclear if the name on the death
warrants is the name of the actual suspect, and police only want to
question Keyes at this point.

Keyes may be homeless and is believed to be from the Santa Barbara area, Smith said.

Homicide
Division Capt. Billy Hayes —whose detectives took over the case
Thursday— said it was too soon to know if the crimes could be linked to
the series of gory stabbing deaths of four homeless people in Orange
County between Dec. 2011 and January...

A 4-year-old girl who went through two years of cancer treatments isn't being allowed to go on a Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World because her father said she's in remission and the trips should go to children who are sicker than his daughter.

The young girl, McKenna May
of Haskins, had the trip postponed twice while was undergoing treatment
for leukemia and finally was set to go in August when the father
refused to sign off on the trip, the girl's mother and grandmother said Thursday.

The
family said Make-A-Wish requires signatures from both parents if either
have visitation rights or is listed on the birth certificate. McKenna's parents never married or lived together. Her grandmother said the father only recently received visitation privileges.

McKenna's
mother and grandmother are now collecting donations at local businesses
to pay for the trip to Disney on their own. Money has poured in since
their story spread beyond northwest Ohio. They haven't told McKenna why
the Make-A-Wish trip was cancelled.

"We've told her we're still going to Disney, just not when she thought it was happening," said her grandmother, Lori Helppie. "We don't want her judge her father."

Her father, William May of Toledo, said donations made to the organization should help those who are terminally ill.

"Spend
the money on a child who this might be their last memory," May said
Thursday. "Kids who are only going to live a year or six months."

The
girl's grandmother said that McKenna has had a rough two years and
won't be judged to be free of cancer until five years after her last
treatment, which was last month.

McKenna
was diagnosed with leukemia in April 2010, just before she turned two.
Chemotherapy treatments affected her speech and immune system, and she
had three extended stays in the hospital. She also broke her leg in a
fall. Doctors told the family that it would better to wait to go to
Disney until McKenna was done with treatment, Helppie said.

"She's
been through quite a bit," Helppie said. "We have had quite the journey
getting her back to being like every other 4-year-old."

McKenna's
mother, Whitney Hughes, said she's overwhelmed that so many people have
reached out to help. The family expects that they'll soon have enough
money to go to Disney. It's something McKenna has talked about for
months, her mom said.

Retail sales
fell in June for the third straight month, the longest run of
consecutive drops since 2008 when the country was mired in recession.

Sales slipped 0.5 percent, with declines across a wide
swath of industries from electronics and cars to building supplies, the Commerce Department said on Monday. Analysts had expected a small increase.

"Evidence is increasingly clear that the U.S. economy is slowing," said Jim Baird, an investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The report adds to a spate of soft economic data that is raising pressure on President Barack Obama
ahead of his November re-election bid. Republican challenger Mitt
Romney is focusing his campaign on the weak economy, which has plagued
Obama's presidency.

The dollar declined against the euro and the yield on
10-year U.S. government bonds dropped to an all-time low as the data
stoked worries the economy was floundering and could need more help from
the Federal Reserve. U.S. stock prices sank.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will testify to lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Fed's view of the economy.

Job creation in the United States has slowed
dramatically in the last few months as employers worry about a sagging global economy
hurt by Europe's snowballing debt crisis. Bernanke's peers at central
banks in China, the euro zone and Britain have eased monetary policy
this summer to prop up their economies.

The International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast for global economic growth
on Monday and urged European policymakers to take bolder action to stem
their crisis. It also warned that China's economy risks a hard landing.

The U.S. factory sector also has shown signs of
contraction due to the global slowdown, although on Monday a survey
showed New York state manufacturers perked up in July. Still, new orders
shrank at the state's factories.

The retail data is
worrisome because it suggests consumer spending, which drives about
two-thirds of the economy, is also sagging.

"This is another
example of how broader economic uncertainty is having an impact on
economic activity," said Eric Fine, managing director of Van Eck G-175
strategies in New York.

JPMorgan economist
Michael Feroli called the retail report "ugly across the board,"
lowering the firm's forecast for second-quarter economic growth to 1.4
percent from 1.7 percent.

The economy grew at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the first quarter.

Separately, a poll
showed on Monday that American companies are scaling back plans to hire
workers with a rising share of firms saying the European debt crisis is
taking a bite out of their sales.

Forty-seven percent
of companies surveyed felt their sales have dropped due to Europe's
woes. Among companies that produce goods rather than provide services,
the impact was even greater.

In a separate
report, the Commerce Department said U.S. business inventories rose in
May as motor vehicle dealers restocked to meet demand.

Sales at
electronics and appliance stores declined 0.8 percent, and were down 1.8
percent at gasoline stations, reflecting a decline in gasoline prices.

Often, relief at
the pump allows consumers to spend their money elsewhere. But that
didn't seem to be the case in June.

"The consumer is
obviously struggling, not benefiting much from weak gasoline prices,"
said David Sloan, an economist at 4Cast in New York.

And gasoline prices might not continue to decline. So far in July, prices for crude oil have risen.

Consumers also face
the prospect of higher taxes and less government spending next year, a
combination that could potentially push the economy into recession.

Lawmakers are
debating how to avoid this "fiscal cliff," which is built into current
law. Democrats warned on Monday they are prepared to let all Bush-era
tax cuts expire if Republicans insist on extending lower rates for top
earners.

Dumbo the Presiphant [An Asian presiphant, of course. An African presiphant would be racist.] and his commie kleptocrat cronies are preparing the way for expropriation of all private property beginning November 7. Mittens is a babykilling big government Repansycan heretic, [All mormonadans are heretics. He's not even a faithful mormonadan.] but at least he's not that bad.

The first round of polls is out after President Obama’s Bain attacks against Mitt Romney
and the results aren’t good news for the White House. By themselves,
the national toplines are discouraging enough: Romney holds a
(statistically-insignificant) 47 to 46 percent lead in the new New York Times/CBS poll, and the president is stuck at 47 percent in recent polls by Fox News and NPR.

But
beneath the head-to-head numbers, the results foreshadow tough times
ahead for Obama. Voters appear to be processing the worsening economic
news belatedly, and their pessimism shows. In the CBS/NYT poll, Obama’s
job approval dropped to 44 percent, with only 39 percent approving of
his economic performance – down five points from April. For the first
time since January, more voters now think the economy is getting worse.
Nearly two-thirds of voters now place some blame on the president for
the weak economic conditions, with 34 percent giving him “significant”
responsibility, and an outright 52 percent majority of independents
believe Obama will “never improve” the economy.

These aren’t numbers that victories are made of.

Obama’s
favorability ratings – always his relative strong suit – are also at an
all-time low. Only 36 percent in the NYT/CBS poll view him favorably, a
six-point drop over the last three months, with 48 percent viewing him
unfavorably. Romney’s numbers aren’t good, either – 32 percent favorable
and 36 percent unfavorable – but mutually assured destruction isn’t
going to win the election.

All told, the numbers paint a picture
of voters growing increasingly disillusioned with the president. By
going negative against Romney, the president is landing some solid
blows. But without a positive governing agenda to campaign on, that may
not be enough.

Troy Polamalu confesses he has lied about the severity of a head injury to remain in a game.

Polamalu, who has a long history of
concussions, also told “The Dan Patrick Show” on Wednesday he has
remained on the field even after the Steelers’ medical staff told him to
leave.

The four-time All-Pro safety considers an
injury to the head to be like that to a knee — if he can tolerate the
discomfort, he’s playing.

“It may be kind of messed up, but you just
kind of push yourself to be out there with your brothers,” Polamalu
said. “I wouldn’t say there are any major lies where I totally lied my
way out of concussions. In fact, during concussions, if it’s serious
enough, you can’t even be conscious enough to lie.”

Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher also said
after last season he would lie about a concussion to stay on the field.
To Polamalu, a player’s view of a concussion differs from the medical
definition.

“I’ve had, I believe, eight or nine recorded
concussions,” Polamalu told the radio show. “When you get your bell
rung, they consider that a concussion. I wouldn’t. ... If that is
considered a concussion, I’d say any football player at least records 50
to 100 concussions a year.”

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

The Boy Scouts of America affirmed on Tuesday that openly and avowed homosexuals cannot belong to the organization. Yahoo! asked Scout leaders and parents of Scouts for their reaction. Here is one perspective.

Originally published under the title "Faith of Our Founding Father", by
Janice Connell. We all know of George Washington,
the fearless general, our first president and "The
Father of Our Country." What we often overlook
is Washington's deep spirituality. Drawing
upon Washington's personal writings,
public speeches, eyewitness accounts and
letters, Connell reveals his
down-to-earth faith. Hardcover. 213 pages.

From Amazon.com:

Most Americans know George Washington as the father of our country, a
dedicated patriot, brilliant general and gifted leader who guided our
fledgling nation through bitter revolution and became our first
president. He was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts
of his countrymen. What most people don’t know is that Washington was a
deeply spiritual man.

A devout Christian, Washington’s religious
beliefs influenced his life as a young surveyor on the dangerous
frontier through his heroics as a militia leader in the French and
Indian War to the dark days of Valley Forge and the triumph of the
presidency. He was held in the highest regard by his fellow citizens and
history has canonized him as the most esteemed of the Founding Fathers.
At the root of that esteem was his spirituality.

In The Spiritual Journey of George Washington,
bestselling author Janice T. Connell examines the spiritual life of our
first president. She takes us on a journey from his boyhood scarred by
the early death of his father to the pinnacle of the presidency.

Washington
was no stranger to sorrow, cold, hunger, persecution, violence, or
terrorism. His great accomplishment was to face misfortune and conquer
it. He achieved his victory by discipline, commitment, prayer, and the
graced ability to bend his will under the yoke of Divine Providence.

Featuring the full text of Washington’s private prayers (some possibly composed by Washington himself), The Spiritual Journey of George Washingtonshines
a light on the previously unrecognized faith of our Founding Father,
illuminating his personal religious convictions and explaining how they
guided his public acts of heroism and his philosophy of governance.

In
this modern world, wracked by wars, terrorism, disease, starvation,
immorality, and tyranny, George Washington has much to teach us. His
accomplishments and writing disclose that Providence was in him, around
him, and always with him, as It must be with us.*Huh? Look here.

- forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=55302.0

The Old Gray Whore's resident über-rich left-fascist [Who am I trying to kid? They're all that way.] Gruppenführer Krugman pretends to be one of the hoi polloi while sprinkling meat tenderizer on their heads.

Seriously. That was the column's headline in these parts.

A lot of people inside the Beltway are tut-tutting about the recent
campaign focus on Mitt Romney’s personal history — his record of
profiting even as workers suffered, his mysterious was-he-or-wasn’t-he
role at Bain Capital after 1999, his equally mysterious refusal to
release any tax returns from before 2010. Some of the tut-tutters are
upset at any suggestion that this election is about the rich versus the
rest. Others decry the personalization: why can’t we just discuss
policy?

And neither group is living in the real world.

First of all, this election really is — in substantive, policy terms — about the rich versus the rest...

Picture this: A scene eerily similar to such classic horror fare as Night of the Living Dead
-- throngs of zombies lurching forward, slouched in unison toward their
target, arms outstretched in a parody of sleepwalking with what appears
to be…canned goods?

Halloween is fast approaching, and with it
comes a different kind of charity drive that has slowly gained traction
in cities and communities worldwide over the past several years. From Utica to Utah, Ohio to Australia, “zombies” are walking the streets, and it’s for a good cause; more specifically, several good causes.

While
the exact origins of zombie walks are nebulous at best -- one of the
earliest documented mass gatherings of folks dressed as the undead occurred in Sacramento in 2001
-- the charity component to such endeavors has been a more recent
development. In 2008, the hosts of a Pittsburgh public access program The It’s Alive Show
initiated the first ever World Zombie Day -- and an accompanying
“Zombie Fest” in Pittsburgh -- and encouraged people worldwide to dress
up as zombies and participate in organized walks to raise awareness of
global hunger. It worked. The first Zombie Fest in Pittsburgh raised more than 2000 pounds of food
in a single day, and this year’s iteration, held on 10/10/10, will aim
to beat that figure while setting a new Guinness World Record for
“Largest Gathering of Zombies” (yes such a thing exists).

Eek!

Elsewhere, the Manchester, UK-based organization Zombie-Aid
raised thousands of dollars for cancer patients during a 2009 zombie
walk. The group has since announced plans for future walks and events
throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. And in Utah, this
year’s “Night of the Running Dead” 5K race
will pit runners dressed as zombies against those dressed, well,
normal, with all of the proceeds benefiting a local cancer foundation.

It
may not be your typical charity event, but then again, Halloween isn’t
exactly your typical holiday, either. What do you think? Are zombie
walks a creepily clever way to gain new participants for worthy causes
or just plain creepy?

The Obama campaign is going retro, circa 2004. Back then, President Bush
supporters attacked then-Democratic candidate John Kerry on what was
supposed to be Kerry's greatest strength -- his military service. A
group known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth undermined that
strength, calling into question Kerry's credentials and military awards.
And thus was born "swiftboating" -- a term used to describe unfair or
untrue political attacks...

Actually, Kerry was and is a lying piece of garbage. And even if he was a war hero like he claimed, look at the damage he did to the country after Vietnam.

Mitt Romney continued his war on
President Barack Obama's ties to political donors, releasing a new
television ad Wednesday that attacks the president for routing taxpayer
dollars to supporters and overseas companies.

The spot begins with a shot of burning cash falling across the screen.

The ad goes after two companies linked to Obama supporters that Romney has repeatedly mentioned
on the campaign trail: the green energy company Solyndra, which filed
for bankruptcy after receiving more than $500 million in federal loans,
and Fisker, a California hybrid car company that builds part of its
automotive fleet in Finland that also received federal money.

The ad ends with footage of New
York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, speaking at a March 2010 press
conference about a report that found stimulus money being routed
overseas.

"Seventy-nine percent of the $2.1
billion in stimulus grants awarded through it went to overseas
companies," Schumer is shown saying.

The Romney campaign did not say where the ad is running or how large the ad buy is. The spot comes a day after Romney unveiled an aggressive new stump speech attacking Obama on cronyism and for not supporting American innovation and businesses.

An Israeli lawmaker has torn up a copy of the New Testament in front of cameras in his parliament office.

An aide says Christian missionaries mailed the Christian scripture to Michael Ben-Ari of the ultranationalist National Union Party.

Itamar Ben-Gvir said Ben-Ari, an Orthodox Jew,
was enraged to receive the book, in whose name he says millions of Jews
were slaughtered. Ben-Ari tore it up, he said, then posed for
photographs with the destroyed Bible.

Many Christians over the centuries persecuted Jews, holding them responsible for Jesus' crucifixion.

Government
spokesman Mark Regev said, "We totally deplore this behavior and
condemn it outright. This action stands in complete contrast to our
values and our traditions. Israel is a tolerant society, but we have
zero tolerance for this despicable and hateful act."

- TheStreet.com via Yahoo News

- Yahoo Tech blog

And from PR Newswire [via Yahoo News] comes proof there are many things more deadly than zombies:

Maybe it's the altitude, but come summer, the Mile High City unleashes a
series of kooky happenings ranging from the world's largest Zombie Crawl
(a horde of 7,000 blood-splattered zombies) to the world's largest
gorilla run (1,200 fully costumed gorillas...and growing). Visitors are
welcome to dress appropriately and join the shenanigans. Here's a guide
to Denver's crazy, fun-filled summer:

1) Every Wednesday night through Sept. 26, thousands of costumed bicyclists take to the streets for a moving pub crawl known as Denver Cruisers.
Bike riders dress according to themes (examples include Space Invaders,
Duct Tape & Cardboard, Pirates, Punk, Goth & Glam) and travel
from pub to pub through the back streets of Denver neighborhoods,
finishing with a scary-looking, but generally safe "Circle of Death," a
ride in which huge circles of riders pedal into an increasingly smaller
circle.

Eek!

2) Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Colorado Gay Rodeo
from July 13 - 15 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. This year's
event includes traditional rodeo events such as team roping, bull-riding
and flag racing, but also incorporate some GLBT twists - wild drag
racing, steer decorating and goat dressing.

What the heck did those poor animals ever do to those sodomites? Where's PETA when you need somebody's car firebombed?

3) Run for Your Lives
in the race of a lifetime at the Thunder Valley Motorcross Park on July
14. This 5K obstacle course pits you - the living - against a horde of
zombies who will chase you through a series of obstacles including pools
of "blood" and undead infested forests. A dozen bands will play
following the race, whether or not there are any survivors.

I have a feeling this one will be a guilty pleasure of mine for years.

From IMDb:

As the result of a childhood wish, John Bennett's teddy bear, Ted, came
to life and has been by John's side ever since - a friendship that's
tested when Lori, John's girlfriend of four years, wants more from their
relationship.

Yeah, it's juvenile and moronic, filled with drugs, sex, [Plush on bimbo. I'm not sure that counts.] farts, profanity, and fights. But it is often hilarious. The party at Ted's apartment is an all-time riot with Sam Jones and a killer Hootie and the Blowfish karaoke number.

You must give Seth MacFarlane credit for knowing his audience and for being only the tiniest bit pretentious. "Ted" may be dumbass, but it is infinitely better for you than all those "films" that pretend they are art.

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.